Word: huks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President. The darkest blot on the Philippine idyl is the two-year-old insurrection of the Hukbalahaps* of central Luzon. Although they are led by Communists, most Huks (pronounced hooks) are still (as the Chinese Communists once pretended to be) basically discontented farmers. The main demand of the Huks is for abolition of the absentee landlord system; or, failing that, for enforcement of an already existing rice tenancy law (70% for the tenant, 30% for the landlord). The late President Manuel Roxas refused their demands, unseated seven Congressmen sympathetic to the Huks. The Philippines' fat, hard-driving new President...
...with Guns. In the interior of Luzon and in the back provinces of many another island the Communist-led Huk-balahaps (People's Army against Japan) were an explosive political force. The "Huks" had fought, 80,000 strong, against the Japs. By last week, still armed, they had become the heart of a loose, new peasant political party, the Democratic Alliance, and they were being loudly whooped up in the U.S. left-wing press as the hope of the Philippines...